Session # 14 - Emre Girginkaya

EEL Automaton 12: IHA

H.D. Reliquary is the first eponymous release from Ben Shirken [a.k.a. Ex Wiish], and finds him returning home to 29 Speedway. The songs sparked during sessions with close collaborators - across 11 pieces, artists such as Pavel Milyakov, MIZU, Dorothy Carlos, Kevin Eichenberger and Muein breathe personality into the record. H.D.R. coaxes beauty from a serrated, raw, yet subdued palette drawn from improvised recordings of trumpet, violin, upright bass, cello, Max/MSP and modular synthesis.

The title references the hard drive as a sacred container for relics, contemplating how digitally archived fragments of one's existence can burn eternally after death. Archives, and in this case recordings, splinter and warp. Some distort what they contain. Some vanish, and others are eternally preserved, immune to deletion. Your information on these digital drives becomes archival shrapnel, the music that survives the remnants of collaboration.

Quick to note the dangers of creating music with ecologically intensive, mass marketed, and unethically trained AI software, Shirken employed bespoke, resource-light machine listening techniques for some of the compositional process. Pieces of recordings were fed into a series of proprietary neural networks, generating MIDI information and audio that reacted to on-the-fly soloing, imaginary sessions between players and algorithms invented posthumously (in post).

Shirken will release H.D. Reliquary alongside a sound installation on April 11. He has performed in spaces such as The New Museum, Pioneer Works, Public Records and Nowadays in New York City; Dripping Music And Arts Festival in New Jersey; La Station in Paris; and Cafe Oto in London. In recent years, he has also been a foundation of the elusive free jazz group Nu Jazz. Where his prior work was geared towards dissociation, H.D. Reliquary invites us to contemplate how our tools for understanding and containing the world fundamentally alter our relationship with it.

Written, recorded, & mixed by Ben Shirken
Greg's Thesis mixed by Jason Park
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu @ Schwebung Mastering
Art & Design by Brian Mark
29 Speedway 2025
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Born Weekend plays little songs for the Big Apple ahead of his forthcoming release ‘Photo Album’. 

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Born Weekend @ The Lot Radio 05-11-2025

Morningshow with Soja Cats is about building gentle friendships & connecting through music, with new guests every month. For the last show, Sophia and Priszilla are just hosting and enjoying two beautiful and energising sets by Thy and Naiad.

THY is an artist based in Basel, CH and usually works with sound-installations and sculptures. Their sound production are complement to their artistic practice, all rooted in story-telling, strips of memory and moods swings, which today is a wild blend of fieldrecording, poetic texts and voices. THY’s DJ sets focus on the emotional friction between soft and rough tones, deconstructed and experimental sounds–all done subtly fading different genres into one-another and drawing the narrative throughout a soundlandscape.

While mostly playing tunes for friends and friends of friends, naiad strives to create musical journeys that go between genres, from ambient to breaks, with a big love for a deep bass, looking for bubbly, glitchy textures, acidic and dreamy elements to spark images in ones head. Critically reflecting on dance music being a consumption good, the act of listening, collective listening and questioning ones position is what interests naiad about sound. Whithin the fine arts bachelor naiad started to explore sound as a medium and creating eerie soundscapes, which sometimes find its way into a mix. 
In this one you can also hear a sample of the vancouver youth choir performing "Canzone rò curtiell" by 'La Mòssa', is a response to street harassment, set to the rhythm of the 'Tammurriata', a traditional dance from Naples.

@thy truong @Laila Blessano @SO4 & PrisZilla 

The Morning Show w/ Soja Cats @ Furka Radio - 08.05.2025

"Springtime music featuring soft synths, strings, and sunny pop." 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/cosmic-peekaboo/episodes/cosmic-peekaboo-15th-may-2025

Cosmic Peekaboo 150525

seasonal changes (19/05/25)

꩜ 5 ELEMENTS ꩜ – EPISODE 3: ETHER 

Ether is the sacred breath, the space where all begins and dissolves. The essence of the divine feminine, it is pure vibration, fluid and infinite. This set is an offering to the unseen, an immersion into the energy of the subtle.🔊 Let it flow through you. ♾️


Tracklist:
Ayla Nereo - Hollow Bone Remixes - Eastern Sun (Ryan Herr remix)
Lila Tirando a Violeta - Flores & el Mar 
Iyakuh & 5AM - Shūhasū 
Anna Meredith - Moonmoons
Shwamp - Emotional Rebirth 
AURORA - Soft Universe
Kino Doscun - Orestia
Ayla Nereo - Crucible / Ritual
Raphaela Gromes, Festival Strings Lucerne & Daniel Dodds - O virtus sapientiae (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Julian Riem)
Wychazel - Fire Circle (Ruslan Roc Edit) 
Maximilian Malone - Great Mother 
Heartbeat 2
Ecstatic Grounding (ReGen ATYYA Remix)
Arcturus - Portal Authority
Delialah El-Atwi - Female Energy, Pt. 1
Equanimous, Stoik, Activation - Abundance (Peace Sine Remix)
Ayla Nereo - Chrysalis
Joe Hisaishi - Journey To The West
K罵YYN - Aleppo
AURORA - The Conflict Of The Mind
Giselle World - Lluvia
Khiva - Feel It Out [duploc.com premiere]
Paul Landry - Lost In Clouds 
Joe Hisaishi  - 첫사랑
Tryshe Dhevney - Breaking Light
Larum & Hildegard von Bingen - O Choruscans Lux Stellarum (feat. Micah Frank, Chet Doxas & Emi Makabe) 
Skyful Of Dreams - Perpetual Dream
Crystal Buddha Mind - Zen Music for Meditation 
Tryshe Dhevney - Time Outside of Time
Delightful Imperfections - Faze (Sephira Remix)
GAÏA Ft. Keren Tannenbaum - Creatura
A Los Ojos
GxxD JxJx - KUN FA YA KUN 
Emancipator - Barnacles (TENEM Remix)


꩜ 5 ELEMENTS ꩜ ep03 — PIPA WAVE

Musical adventures. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/clarissa-connelly/episodes/clarissa-connelly-20th-may-2025

Adventures w/ Clarissa Connelly 200525

TSOV257. This is an audio diary of the songs in my library that made me feel very happy and lifted when times were tough this past Summer, 2025. I'm grateful for the power of music to lift moods and inspire and I hope this diary resonates with you, because I journaled it for you.

Simoncino - Jungle Dream (Ron Trent Remix I) [Hot Mix, 2022]
Martha Wash - Carry On (Masters At Work 12” Dance Mix) [RCA, 1992]
Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson with special guests BBD and Ralph Tresvant - The Best Things In Life Are Free (Classic 12” w/ Rap [by David Morales and Frankie Knuckles] [Perspective, 1992]
Danny Tenaglia - Bottom Heavy (Original Mix [Edit]) [Tribal UK, 1994]
Junior Vasquez - Get Your Hands Off My Man (Fire Island Dub 4 Junior [Edit]) [Tribal UK, 1994]
The S-Man [Roger Sanchez] - Time 2 Stop (9 to 5 Mix) [Hard Times, 1994]
Fire Island - There But For The Grace of God (Original Live ’n’ Funky Mix) [Junior Boys Own, 1993]
Paul Roux - Hold On [Bedrock, 2025]
Black Box - Not Anyone (Miami By Night Part I & II) [Groove Groove Melody, 1994]
Soul Providers - Rise (Bini & Martini Vocal Remix) [Look At You, 1999/2000]
Africanism - Block Party [Yellow Productions, 2000]
Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted (Armand’s Get Deep Mix) [Strictly Rhythm, 1994]
Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K-Klassic Mix) [MCA, 1994]
Dave Seaman x Shola Phillips - Hold On [Selador, 2024]
State Of Mind - Take Control (M&S Epik Club Mix) [Ministry Of Sound, 1998]
Photek [with Robert Owens] - Mine To Give (David Morales Happy Mix) [Astralwerks, 2000]
M People - Open Your Heart (Luv Dup Dub) [Epic, 1995]
Karen Pollard - Reach Out To Me (Special Request Remix) [Hard Times, 2025]

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